Obi-Wan Kenobi debuted two years in the past, however Ewan McGregor nonetheless desires one other season. “I actually do hope we get an opportunity to do one other one”
Ewan McGregor lastly returned as Obi-Wan Kenobi for a sequence launched on Disney+ in 2022. Whereas it was successful, there was no phrase on a possible second season. When the present was launched on Blu-ray/4K, it was billed as ‘The Full Sequence’ moderately than ‘The Full First Season,’ which appeared to point that Lucasfilm wasn’t going to convey the present again. Nonetheless, McGregor instructed Selection that he hopes he will get the prospect to do one other season.
“I liked, greater than something, attending to know Alec Guinness’ work as a result of I used to be taking part in him as a younger man. Even now with the sequence, that’s my private problem — if a take feels a bit like him, I’m comfortable,” McGregor mentioned. “I actually do hope we get an opportunity to do one other one. Between the place we ended off within the sequence and when Alec Guinness comes on display screen with Luke Skywalker, I believe there’s one other few tales to inform in there.“
Whereas the present had its critics, I discovered a lot to get pleasure from. Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi is all the time pleasant, and seeing him sharing the display screen with Hayden Christensen as soon as once more was a spotlight. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy mentioned final 12 months that whereas a second season wasn’t within the works, it’s all the time doable that Kenobi might return in one other venture, maybe even in a film. “I all the time hesitate to say no to extra Obi-Wan Kenobi. Possibly we find yourself doing one thing that will get included into among the different tales that we’re doing, or ultimately right into a film, however who is aware of?” Kennedy mentioned. “However proper now, it’s nonetheless our normal stand-alone restricted sequence, we’ve no plans for enlargement proper now.“
The Obi-Wan Kenobi sequence came about ten years after the occasions of Revenge of the Sith and adopted the previous Jedi grasp as he set off on a mission to rescue a younger Leia Organa. Alongside the best way, he confronts his former apprentice and accepts that Anakin Skywalker has been consumed by Darth Vader. The venture had initially been pitched as a trilogy of films by Stuart Beattie, who conceived a narrative which might have explored Kenobi’s transition from the character we noticed on the finish of Revenge of the Sith to the one we first met in A New Hope. The underperformance of Solo: A Star Wars Story brought on Disney to rethink, and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s story made the leap to the small display screen.
Would you prefer to see Ewan McGregor return for Obi-Wan Kenobi season 2? Or ought to the franchise over on to new tasks?
